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Old February 1, 2017   #122
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Originally Posted by dmforcier View Post
Trying to understand why a Christmas light manufacturer would use a series circuit...

The circuit resistance is the sum of the resistances of all those bulbs in series. Thus the current flow is 1/n of a single bulb, where n is the number of (identical) bulbs. Meaning that the bulbs glow that much less brightly. And also that they burn out that much less often.

Hardly seems sufficient justification.
Odd but true the old ones were this way as well as some the old lighting.

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